Peggy Shumaker, a stalwart supporter of Alaska writers and the larger arts community, is a professor emerita from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a former Alaska writer laureate. Author of nine ...

Founded in 1996 by a pair of Black poets who felt isolated in predominantly white literary spaces, Cave Canem has become one ...

Persian Darbar has been more than a restaurant in Mumbai—it's a legacy and a sensory journey back to a 16th-century Persian ...

Der Dutchman Restaurant isn’t trying to hide, but unless you’re familiar with this corner of Ohio’s Amish country, you might ...

Seattle Reads is the library’s citywide book group, with more than 20 programs planned in April and May, including events with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón on May 16 and 17. Find a copy of “You Are ...

Emily Dickinson explained what the feeling of writing poetry is like, “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were ...

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

A fifth-grade student named Loudricka at Morningside K-8 Academy wrote this poem for O, Miami and National Poetry Month.

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch," "The early bird catches the worm" — these and other proverbs are poems ...

Renowned writer and North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green is visiting Tyrrell County later this month for two days ...

The Whiting Award for Poetry is one of 10 annual literary awards granted by the foundation, which also honor fiction, ...